Catherine Elizabeth Rush
BIRTH
Apr 28, 1783
DEATH
March 24, 1854
FAMILY
FATHER:
Benjamin Rush
(1746-1813)
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Rush, Catherine Elizabeth
(1783-1854)
Catherine Elizabeth Rush (1783-1854) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Richard Rush. Richard Rush was a public official and lawyer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Catherine Elizabeth Rush to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Catherine Elizabeth Rush in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Richard Rush
(1780-1859)
Richard Henry Rush
(1825-1893)
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DIED:
Mar 24, 1854
Catherine Elizabeth Rush was born on Apr 28, 1783. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Catherine Elizabeth Rush is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Catherine Elizabeth Rush died on Mar 24, 1854. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.